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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
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A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
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When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
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In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.
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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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History works itself out in the living.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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Being a girl didn't really affect me until I entered junior high and had to wear skirts, curl my hair, and even get used to panty hose. However, my hatred of panty hose helped make me a writer who only wears comfortable clothes. I've successfully avoided panty hose for most of my life.
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Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
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Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.
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There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
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I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.
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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
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